Author: James M. WagstaffePublisher:
ISBN: 9781522115922
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Wagstaffe Group Practice Guide
Author: James M. WagstaffePublisher:
ISBN: 9781522115922
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages :
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Powell on Real Property
Author: Richard Roy PowellPublisher: LexisNexis/Matthew Bender
ISBN: 9781422427491
Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Law of Proof in Early Modern Equity
Author: Michael R. T. MacnairPublisher: Duncker & Humblot
ISBN: 9783428491988
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This volume is a systematic study of the rules of proof in English Courts of Equity between the later sixteenth and the early eighteenth century. In this period the proof practices of the Courts of Equity were controversial, as contemporary lawyers saw them as linked to the Civil Law, and some perceived a threat to the Common Law tradition. The reality of this linkage and threat has continued to be controversial among historians. In addition, this period saw the early stages of the development of the Common Law of Evidence, which in modern law is a striking divergence from Civil Law systems. The origins of the law of evidence have traditionally been linked to the need for judges to control the jury, but this view has been subject to several recent critiques. The Courts of Equity did not generally use jury trial. This study considers Equity proof rules in their relationships to contemporary Civil and Canon Law proof conceptions, medieval Common Law rules governing proof of facts, and early Common Law evidence rules. It concludes that Equity courts operated a variant of civilian proof concepts, and mediated an influence of these concepts on the origins of the Common Law of Evidence. These findings cast a new light on the debates on these origins, and on the relationship between the Common Law and Civil Law traditions in early modern England.
A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law
Author: John Henry WigmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
A Concise History of the Common Law
Author: Theodore Frank Thomas PlucknettPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584771372
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
The Law of Uses and Trusts
Author: Geoffrey GilbertPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530946917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
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Family Law and Practice
Author: Arnold H. RutkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages :
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John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence
Author: Andrew PorwancherPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273637
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Honorable Mention, 2017 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Time-honored verities proved obsolete, and intellectuals in all fields sought ways to make sense of an increasingly unfamiliar reality. The legal system in particular began to buckle under the weight of its anachronism. In the midst of this crisis, John Henry Wigmore, dean of the Northwestern University School of Law, single-handedly modernized the jury trial with his 1904-5 Treatise onevidence, an encyclopedic work that dominated the conduct of trials. In so doing, he inspired generations of progressive jurists—among them Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Benjamin Cardozo, and Felix Frankfurter—to reshape American law to meet the demands of a new era. Yet Wigmore’s role as a prophet of modernity has slipped into obscurity. This book provides a radical reappraisal of his place in the birth of modern legal thought.
Family Law in America
Author: Sanford N. KatzPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199759227
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This volume examines the state of family law in America. Among its themes is the tension between individual autonomy and governmental regulation in all aspects of family law. It examines both conventional and new definitions of formal and informal domestic relationships.
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